UMass Football News--October 22nd, 2018

Lost in this train wreck season is the fact the new special teams kicker and punter are doing well. Kickers Mike Caggiano (2-3) and Cooper Garcia (3-3) are 5-6 for the season. Zero blocked kicks.

George Georgopoulos has punted 27-1100 40.9 AVE 60 LONG 3 I20 5 50+. Zero blocked. Georgopoulos had a nifty 53 yard punt in the third quarter of the Coastal Carolina game that got the Minutemen out of their own end zone.

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No Las Vegas odds on UMass-UConn as of 6:45 AM this morning.

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The Sports Chat Place looks at the UMass-UConn game. They say the odds are late do to uncertainty of the status of Andrew Ford and Marquis Young.

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The New Haven Register has five takeaways from UConn's loss to USF.

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The Hartford Courant says the current troubles of UConn are due to bad recruiting under Bob Diaco.

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